Shock as 1,472 quango fat-cats earned over £100k last year, report reveals
A TOTAL of 1,472 quango fat-cats earned more than £100,000 last year, a report has revealed.
Some 315 of the state-funded staff took home more than the Prime Minister’s £172,153.
Channel 4 boss Alex Mahon topped the list, pocketing £993,000 in total, with a salary of £619,000.
Homes England had the most six-figure earners at 111, followed by the BBC with 90.
Beeb commercial chief Tom Fussell took home £774,000, including a bumper £309,000 bonus — the biggest bonus recorded.
The TPA said it backs Labour’s review of the UK’s 380 quangos but added real change must mean urgently cutting numbers back.
The think tank also renewed calls for the government to sell off Channel 4.
Responding to the report, Mike Wood MP, Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, said: “There are too many quangos wasting taxpayers’ cash, but Labour’s only answer is to create 27 more – including Rachel Reeves’s pet project Office for Value for Money which will cost millions of pounds without any benefit for hardworking people.
“The Conservatives are under new leadership, and we are clear we need to cut waste, streamline government, and put power back in the hands of the public.”
John O’Connell, chief executive of the TPA, said: “Taxpayers will be shocked to hear that there are hundreds of quangocrats heading up bodies they may never have heard taking home massive pay packets the average Brit can only dream of.
“But beyond the healthy remuneration, arguably the bigger problem is that in many areas of government policy these quango bosses reign supreme, with minimal ministerial or parliamentary oversight despite the often highly sensitive and significant nature of what their organisation is responsible for.”